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| Class work, clinics affected at Dental College & Hospital due to indefinite strike of students | | Health department not serious in tackling crisis | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 12: The Jammu & Kashmir government more so the health department has failed to take note of the problems faced by the students of Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar and also the patients visiting the dental hospital.
For the past couple of months the post graduate students of Department of Orthodontia of GDC Srinagar are on strike against the head of the department Professor Mohammad Mushtaq Najar. The students have raised banner of revolt following the slapping and manhandling of one of their colleagues by the HOD after he refused to do menial jobs assigned by the HOD who is a member of State Dental Council.
On March 9 the students of department of Orthodontia were joined by students of other departments of the dental college and the students have proceeded on an indefinite strike. Due to the indefinite strike the class work has been badly impacted, but still then the government is unmoved.
Since the post graduate students are not attending to the clinics the work at the dental hospital has also been affected to a great extent. This has led to a situation where the patients visiting the hospital have to leave without any treatment whatsoever. As such there is complete mismanagement at the dental college and the hospital.
Up to this moment of time the minister of health Bali Bhagat has failed to come up to the expectations of protesting students since he has not uttered a single word about the same. Last week top bureaucrat 'insulted' the protesting students by saying that they (students) should do the menial jobs of their guide as there is nothing bad in it.
The protesting students have presented the video clips and other material against Prof. Najar to the enquiry committee set up by the college authorities to look into the matter. Prof. Mushtaq is very close to Principal GDC, Srinagar, Dr. Reyaz Farooq.
In the past many allegations were leveled against the HOD Orthodontia. However, all the charges against Prof. Mushtaq were dropped since he and the Principal GDC Srinagar influenced the concerned stakeholders not to take action.
It would be in place to mention here that Dr. Reyaz is yet to be confirmed as Principal of GDC Srinagar as he continues to be in-charge Principal for the last 14 years after being appointed the same in 2004. The same is in violation of Supreme Court guidelines that call for appointment of in-charge Principal for mere six months.
Pertinent to mention here that State Vigilance Organization (SVO) registered a case against Dr. Reyaz after it was established that he had purchased medical equipment for GDC Srinagar and GDC Jammu at exorbitant rates thus causing loss in crores of rupees to the state ex-chequer. The multi-crore purchase scandal came to the fore after revelations that came through a Right to Information (RTI) application moved by Tanveer Hussain Khan.
After preliminary investigations that led to the revelation of purchase scandal the anti-corruption court in Srinagar started the formal investigations in the case. The inquiry established the fraud and finally a First Information Report (FIR) under FIR number 33/2012 under section 161 of Ranbir Penal Code was registered against Principal GDC, Srinagar.
The inquiry officer probing the case established that equipment was purchased on exorbitant rates in order to cause monetary benefits to Principal GDC, Srinagar and officials of the company that supplied the equipment. In his report to then Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, the inquiry officer had written that machine Orthophos X G5 DS Ceph had been procured on exorbitant rates in order to cause undue pecuniary benefits to Dr. Reyaz and some others.
After this Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir directed SSP Vigilance Organization to register formal FIR in the case if in his opinion any ground for the same exists on the basis of the findings arrived at by the inquiry officer under the relevant provisions of law. The vigilance organization while carrying out probe also found that fraud has taken place and it was only after this FIR was filed.
The inquiry officer in his report said that he compared the rates of the equipment in the market and found that GDC Principal has paid more for the equipment so that he acquires benefits from the purchase. The rates of the equipment were also presented to the Anti-Corruption Judge by the inquiry officer in a tabular form in his report. |
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